Bulus Farah (1910–1991) was a

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who founded the Federation of Arab Trade Unions and Labor Societies in 1942. He began working in the

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workshops in 1925 as a fifteen-year-old apprentice. Farah was one of the first Arab leaders of the

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to go to study in

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at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East. In 1945, he attended the World Trade Union Conference in

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. He is also known as the author of a book on the railway workers of the post-

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period, entitled ''Min al-'uthmaniyya ila al-dawla al-'ibriyya''.

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1910 births 1991 deaths Palestinian trade unionists Communist University of the Toilers of the East alumni {{worker-activist-stub